Joanna Newsom - Have One On Me (RIP blogs)

February 23

http://pitchfork.com/news/37562-joanna-newsom-album-confirmed/

Strange name for a Joanna Newsom album

this should be a fun thread

I won't have one, thanks.

I'm fully expecting that there will be about three of us will enjoy this record.

*who

Will this album be filled with pixie dust, unicorns, and magic?

misread ^^ as "puke dust, unicorns, and magic" and didn't even blink

It would be cool if the harmonica was the main instrument on this one

it's a capella

are you being serious

no

http://16.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ktzexcFYyC1qa95b5o1_500.jpg

ya hoos, serious

well shit on my nuts and call me sally

Is there any beatboxing?

well shit on my nuts and call me sally

^^^ This was actually the disc's working title, before they settled on Have One On Me.

Let's cut to the chase - Is Rahzel featured, and will there be throat singing?

Lil Wayne guests on a verse in the closer.

I always forget she's so polarizing. :P

Ah, I like her okay. Her voice is kind of grating, tho.

It's gotten *a lot* better, though. Esp. live. She should use a bit more reverb on her vocals. Also "Only Skin" is an amazing song sung by anyone tbh

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVx_kVtFI9E

As Turangalila said, "polarizing":

I couldn't stand 5 minutes of her voice, much less a whole concert!

absolutely fucking phenominal. some of her stuff i can't listen to such as "peach plum pear". "sprout and bean" is how I got turned on to her. but this is my new faviorite

Also: poor spelling.

ya hoos, serious

― velko, Tuesday, January 12, 2010 11:18 PM Bookmark

Ha, was this deliberate?

Well, and listen to this one...
I'm pretty sure it'll be on the new album and it's just so heartbreaking and kind of In My Life-ish.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sL0T1yUYkbs

; )

I think I'm going to force myself to wait until the new album comes out before I listen to any of the new songs . . . I may have heard a clip a long time ago, but I don't remember. This is probably the album I want to hear more than any other this year.

way too many posts on this already guys

not a Joanna Newsom fan?

ill have one on her ME

i spent the length of an awful fever with ys blasting on loop and it was an experience as deeply moving and psychedelic as anything any chemicals ever induced in me

^^ i don't usually say this kind of shit

Seeing her play a week from today...

trust me, it's just as good as when you're not on shit! if you don't want to sit through the whole thing, just try "Emily."

Pa pointed out to me, for the hundredth time tonight
The way the ladle leads to a dirt-red bullet of light
Squint skyward and listen
Loving him, we move within his borders
Just asterisms in the stars' set order

also: "hydrocephalitic listlessness"

ban hoosteen

http://i47.tinypic.com/2zhljle.gif

HI DERE

I didn't have the heart to start this one

I will also anticipate this record

Has it been confirmed that this will be a 3 disc set and more down-to-earth than Ys?

No but I sincerely hope there's strings in it :(

I kind of think she could make a better record minus the Van Dyke Parks string arrangements. I'd like to hear something a bit more focused.

I just hope that horrible live band she was playing with back in '08 aren't a part of this record, god they were grating.

I am fucking stoked for this.

Cannot wait.

Literally anticipating this quite eagerly.

I was pretty sure I'd hate this, but hearing that it's a capella means I'll reserve my judgement. I generally find her stuff cloying, annoying, like nails on a chalkboard, however.

i think she's fantastic. very very excited to hear a new one...

first time i saw her was SXSW a few years back, before the first album was out, and she played next door to a Lookout Records Showcase, and the venue she played had such dreadful acoustics that the sound of 3-chord-punk and conversations at the bar were louder, even right up to the stage, than her harp and singing. but she just played on with such tenacity and good spirits...

i wish more music made my imagination come to life like joanna's does.

otm

Divers is slightly above HOOM in my ranking (Ys is #1). I love the range of instrumentation on Divers and I love every song. With HOOM I tend to pick individual tracks and I seldom listen to any disc in its entirety. Still the best album ever obv.

hard to believe Have One on Me is 10 years old now

Best record of last decade.

wouldn’t argue

(did the lol unicorns crew shitting up the first attempts to discuss this ever bother to hear to it because the zings are particularly misplaced for this album)

I’ve listened since it came out & I keep getting more out of it. feel like it’s still underrated -I didn’t love her until this one & was disappointed by the relatively muted response to it at the time. too much suspicion over its length and “ambition” (tellingly overused word in newsom criticism) despite the (to me) surprising accessibility & obvious greatness of the songs. then it got swept aside because spotify is all music ever now. I’m glad it has a solid cult & I hope it keeps growing

to me divers takes the emotional punch of however long HOOM is and compresses it into 50 near-perfect minutes. divers destroys me every time i listen to it.

I feel bad for ignoring later releases bc I’m still digesting this one (and I struggled with the previous two). I will try to rectify this

Have One on Me was maybe overambitious, but years later it feels like it keeps on giving

RIP blogs :(

Left I very much appreciate your posts about music in particular, I really need to give this another chance. The 6-piece band touring the Ys songs remains one of the most astonishing live events I've ever witnessed, the records always fell short for me but this album is really a different beast entirely than the 1st 2 so it deserves more from me

HOOM is non-functional for me-- half the songs are not even too long, per se, but lacking enough information to sustain them. I remember the first time I heard "Baby Birch" and was blown away with how slow it was, not in a lulling way, but in a static way. If this was a thesis statement, then sure, but it doesn't match the verbosity of the lyrics (or the comparative density of songs like "Good Intentions...").

The other half of the songs are spectacular, "Go Long" in particular is just miraculous kora/harp duetting and I'll never tire of it. Divers is a much more complete and satisfying release imho

The 6-piece band touring the Ys songs remains one of the most astonishing live events I've ever witnessed

Absolutely, and HOOM is very much a continuation of that small group dynamic that worked so well. It's that stripped down, intimate feeling that makes it special for me.

divers has some outstanding moments in "sapokanikan" and the title track but it's easily her weakest as an album. the synths on some tracks aren't really well integrated into the sound and "goose eggs" and "waltz of the 101st lightborne" cross some line into being grating in a way her work never had been before.

i need to go back to divers... i was absolutely wrecked by a breakup at the end of 2015 and could not align with its dwellings on mortality as a result of finding true love

i assume my inability to get into it is my own failing

My buddy played guitar in the Ys band. I've never asked him that many questions about it, but he did tell me how well rehearsed they all were, and while there was a tiny little bit of room for improvisation it was all pretty precise, as you might expect.

I wouldn’t say “Divers is the best album of the 2010s” except on the first Sunday of the month, when it really is

this year of being 27/28 has been the first time in my life that Divers has resonated with me because its three main themes -- love, time, and mortality -- have all escaped me virtually my entire life until this year

and with that, I'm really looking forward to growing with it!

i would say divers is the best album of the 2010s

(did the lol unicorns crew shitting up the first attempts to discuss this ever bother to hear to it because the zings are particularly misplaced for this album)

This thread is in my POX of ilx threads.

It's the record I'd play someone before I killed them, definitely.

― Fig On A Plate Cart (Alex in SF), Tuesday, January 26, 2010 3:52 PM (ten years ago) bookmarkflaglink

I've typed this before but if you have Newsom on vinyl it's fun to run them at 45 rpm

Pulled this out again last night and made it through about 3/4s of it before I crashed out (started with disc 2 tho). Made for a lovely listen with the first snow of the season sticking to the ground. "Does Not Suffice" is such a terrific closer.

9 years ago there was a moment when I shared Go Long with a young woman and it expressed perfect romantic tension.
Have One on Me was incredible from day one when the game was to agree on what was the best CD (still 2).
I haven't returned much to Newsom since Divers, after slightly over-obsessing with her (since Ys) but I can always return to her. Divers took a bit of time due to the crackling pastoral folksy village atmosphere and high-pitched register, but the compositions and highs are there: Sapokanikan and the slower more solemn songs: A Pin-Light Bent, the title song, the closer. It's interesting that she hasn't recorded a new album since then... I wonder what she thinks of it, if she feels like she has exhausted her style.
A lot of memories from travelling to London alone to see her (as a young man), then in Zurich through three hours of rain and traffic a Friday night and we got there late, and finally to make it up in a concert place in Luzern that is used for opera and shaped like a boat for perfect acoustics.

On a Good Day - the opening track of disc 2 - I think it is one of her most concise and beautiful songs

Horrible 70's album titles like I've Got My Own Album to Do

whatever

she's made four albums in a row that are almost perfect, can't think of many other artists today that applies to

I will always love Joanna Newsom for having the Moore Brothers sing on this album — worth checking out: https://themoorebros.com/

Deflatormouse actually makes a good point - there is a tension between the highly colloquial sense of the title, and the actual resonance of it after you take in the title track.

It's also easy to imagine it as the title of, say, a Tanya Tucker album from 1978 with her dressed as a diner waitress on the cover.

Good Intentions Paving Company is sort of an indie standard now isn't it?

Anyway, this is very nice indeed:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gzM-3XzMjQQ

Curious what those who hate Newsom's voice would make of this cover.

"A bunch of years back", eleven to be precise, but shut up, 2010 was yesterday. Sometimes I even forget that she put out Divers after that.
Skimmed through the comments at the time of release, goddamn that thread was a happy mess.
The cover is a nice performance but really lacks the piano and the style is really softened and the dynamics ironed out. It's almost a different song.

It does highlight just how strong Newsom is at writing original and complicated melodies, but yeah, the original has a lot more personality.

In my initial Joanna obsession phase, back around when Ys came out, I DLed a lot of random covers of songs from Milk-Eyed Mender. A lot of those are great because her voice was so polarizing and different then (read: worse). But for any subsequent stuff, not sure I've ever heard a cover of her that I preferred to the original.

Would love for her to rerecord MEM now. Would be fantastic with some light tasteful accompaniment, but even if she kept it a solo affair, it would be revelatory to have a nice studio-quality copy of her singing all those songs now that she can sing.

I do really enjoy The Decemberists' version of "Bridges and Balloons"

Re: that video, I don't think I've ever seen anyone capo at the 10th fret before!

Hah, I was thinking exactly that

I love MEM, probably still my favourite of her records. My daughter was obsessed with it a few years back, when she was 3 or so, and knew all of Inflammatory Writ off by heart, along wih a few others. She would demand it whenever in our car, or indeed anybody's car, and both sets of our parents were entirely dumbfoudned by Newsom's voice when they heard it.

She's not so fussed about Newsom now and probably doesn't remember the words to the songs anymore - she's big into King Gizzard And The Lizard Wizard at the moment - but I have a photo of Joanna that Steve Gullick took of her when we were covering her at SXSW 2004 to put up in my daughter's bedroom when I get around to getting it framed, and I'd still like to take her to see Joanna play live, if and when she ever plays here again.

kinda love that she's still not on streaming (afaik?)

I suspect she never will be

also, I think about the title to this thread often, and it always makes me giggle to think that a new Joanna Newsom album could singlehandedly cause blogs (whatever they were) to come crashing down. Seems quaint now.

kinda love that she's still not on streaming (afaik?)

she's on apple music like the rest of drag city, they're still holding out with spotify

The subtitle in this thread wasn't a suggestion that her record release would overwhelm traffic to music blogs, it was a response to the article in NOW Magazine suggesting that, because Have One On Me didn't break sales records, therefore blogs/Pitchfork/music criticism were revealed as impotent.

don't spoil it for me

Joanna Newsom could power her own cryptocurrency with the heat generated from those takes

I love MEM, probably still my favourite of her records. My daughter was obsessed with it a few years back, when she was 3 or so, and knew all of Inflammatory Writ off by heart, along wih a few others. She would demand it whenever in our car, or indeed anybody's car, and both sets of our parents were entirely dumbfoudned by Newsom's voice when they heard it.

― burnt hombre (stevie), Tuesday, June 15, 2021 9:19 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

Is this your daughter: baby singing sprout and the bean ?

Ha! No, that's not her I'm afraid...

I've been jamming this recently, but despite the medieval joplinisms my senescent brain keeps trying to turn all of the songs into "donald, where's yer troosers?"

There is a blacksmith and there is a shepherd and there is a butcher boy
And there is a barber who's cutting and cutting away at my only joy

I saw a rabbit as slick as a knife and as pale as a candlestick
And I had thought it'd be harder to do but I caught her and skinned her quick, held her there

Kicking and mewling upended unspooling unsung and blue
Told her wherever you go little runaway bunny I will find you

And then she ran
As they're liable to do

Be at peace baby, and be gone
Be at peace baby, and be gone